Indoor Aquaponics

How to Grow Vegetables Year Round With Indoor Aquaponics?

You can use aquaponics to create your own indoor garden.in your basement or spare bedroom.  You will get  flowers, fresh vegetables round the year without using  chemical fertilizers.

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3 good reasons to start indoor aquaponics

SAVES CASH

Instead of having the need for tons of resources for traditional farming, aquaponics enables a recyclable system that is purely self-sustaining. Besides the need to pay for the initial equipment expenses, there is no need to continually buy expensive chemicals and/or materials to maintain it.

EASY MAINTENANCE

Fish typically discharge ammonia (waste) that in traditional farming is not reused. However, with aquaponics, that same waste can be reused for vital nutrients for the plants. Therefore, with your indoor aquaponics system, you'll be surprised that upkeep of the system can be a lot easier than the maintenance of a fish tank.

LESS CARBON FOOTPRINT

Less land is needed to produce crops in an indoor aquaponics system. Matter of fact, an aquaponic farm can be constructed pretty much anywhere you have space. If you have a space in your home that you can place a fish tank, you can have an indoor aquaponics system. It's a lot easier than you might think.

Recommended indoor aquaponics Fishes

• tilapia
• large mouth bass
• sunfish
• crappie
• koi
• barramundi
• silver perch, golden perch
• pacu
• various ornamental fish such as angelfish, guppies, tetras, swordfish, mollies

Recommended Plants:

• peppers
• cucumbers
• tomatoes
• beans
• peas
• squash

 Plants that have higher nutritional demands and will only do well in a heavily stocked, well established aquaponic system.

Indoor aquaponics lighting

The following considerations should help in setting up aquaponics lighting.

1. The use of metal halides in aquaponics is highly recommended. This is because this kind of lighting system is efficient enough to produce around 80 to 120 lumens per watt.

2. A comparable option for metal halide is the use of sodium bulbs.  Sodium bulbs make use of sodium (excited state) to create light. Experts also note that these bulbs pose lesser pollution risks than some lighting setup.

Cost of Indoor aquaponics system

An indoor aquaponics system can require a significant amount of money to create as it will be necessary to purchase a tank, pump, plants and other sundries to make it work.

• 12 square foot Tabletop System costs $270 to build if you build it.
• 48 square foot Tabletop System costs $510 to build if you source all materials.
• lMurray Hallam’s 7.23 square foot Balcony System costs $970
• The Aquaponic Source’s 8.5 square foot Aquabundance system costs $1,295

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